From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T22:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] xml-block-output: create XML output by using blocks

On Friday 11 March 2005 06:50 am, Renald Buter wrote:
> Just released a very small XML output utility that uses blocks to create
> the output. For example:
[...]
> Since I couldn't find anything like it on the RAA, I created it myself.
> Yet should there already something like it, let me know and I'll
> withdraw this one.

There is Builder::XmlMarkup ...

require 'builder/xmlmarkup'
xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent=>2)
xml.foo(:id=>1) {
  xml.faa
  xml.tag!("vrom-vrom", "vroar!\n")
  xml << "text\n"
}
puts xml.target!

Produces:

<foo id="1">
  <faa/>
  <vrom-vrom>vroar!
</vrom-vrom>
text
</foo>

Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/builder/

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